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BOOT 0R SHOE. v No. 417,044. Patented Dec. 10,1889. I

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH L. JOYCE, OF NElV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENT, TO THE UNION VATERPROOF SHOE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BOOT OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,044, dated December 10, 1889.

Application filed May 3, 1889. Serial No. 309,434. (No model.)

To (all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH L. JOYCE, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a side view of a shoe complete embodying this invention; Fig. 2, a side view of the rubber article as prepared to receive the leather sole, and Fig. 3 a transverse section through the ball of the shoe.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of boots and shoes in which the upper is made from fabricated india-rubber with leather soles. In the manufacture of this class of shoes in some cases the upper has been prepared of a shape corresponding to the upper of a leather shoe, the insole placed upon the last, then the india-rubber upper placed over the last, and so as to lap onto the insole, then the outsole applied and nailed or stitched through to the insole, the nailing or stitching securin g the edge of the india-rubber upper. In other cases the leather sole has been applied before vulcanizing. In the first case it is very difiicult to prepare the edge of the upper so that a permanent and strong connection can be made between the soles and the upper. Various appliances have been employed to strengthen the edge of the upper, but yet there is always a weakness in the connection between the upper and the sole. In the latter case the leather is unavoidably injured by the great heat required 40 for vulcanization, and the leather is liable to separate from the surface to which it is connected.

The manufacture of india-rubber boots and shoes and the manufacture of leather work on boots and shoes are two distinct manufac tures not conveveniently combined.

The object of my invention is to produce an india-rulober upper with the insole finished complete as an article of manufacture and ready for the hands of the leatheravorker, who, having procured such india-rubber uppers, may apply leather soles thereto in the same manner as they are applied to leather shoes; and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

In illustrating my invention I represent a common style of high-cut shoe open on the instep-line for lacings. The shoe is composed of an insole A, which is first placed upon the last in the same manner as for making indiarubber overshoes. This sole may be com bined india-rubber and fabric, but so as to have sufficient strength to hold the stitches or fastenings, which may be taken or driven 6 5 therein. The upper B is cut in the usual shape for making shoes. A strong fabric lining is applied to the last and lapped onto the insole in substantially the same manner as for making overshoes. Then the rubber outer 7o thickness of the upper is applied tothe lining, and its edge extended over onto the insole, and there secured in the usual manner. lPreferably an india-rubher-prepared thin fabric 0 is placed on the sole outside the turnedover edges of the upper. All the parts ad here together the same as in the manufacture of india-rubber shoes, and in this condition it is vulcanized in the usual manner of Vulcanizing completed shoes, the vulcanizing 8o completing the article. Thus is produced an upper of india-rubber with a strong insole ready to receive the outsole. The outer sole is cut from leather in the usual manner of cutting leather soles, and is applied to the sole of the shoe and stitched 0r nailed thereon in the same manner as if the upper were leather. In nailing, the last is introduced into the shoe to support the upper for the driving of thenails. In stitching, a machine will be employed which works substantially the same as the wcll-known McKay sewing machine, whereby a line of stitches is run around near the edge of the sole, through the sole, and through the insole. The heel is then applied in the usual manner.

By this construction of shoe the manufacturer of india-rubber is enabled to produce an upper complete ready for the leather .outer sole, and these uppers to be furnished to the leather-Workers to complete.

The cost of manufacture of such a shoe is very much less than that of a leather shoe, having all the advantages of a leather-sole shoe, With the combined advantages of a water-proof upper.

I claim The herein-described shoe, consisting of an india-rubber and fabric upper combined with an insole, the edges of the upper lapped onto the insole and secured thereto by the adhesive properties of the materials and vulcanized, and a leather outer sole secured to the said upper and insole, which is appliedafter Vulcanization, substantially as described.

JOS. L. JOYCE.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, FRED O. EARLE. 

